Sense of pride
Dear Editor, I was filled with a sense of pride on Saturday, September 26, when I witnessed the Guyana Defence Force on a route march along the East Coast of Demerara.
Dear Editor, I was filled with a sense of pride on Saturday, September 26, when I witnessed the Guyana Defence Force on a route march along the East Coast of Demerara.
Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is quoted in the press as saying that under his watch the PPP will return to power.
Dear Editor, Mr Barton of the East Coast Cricket Board, in a recent retort to my suggestion that cricket clubs on the East Coast be told the truth, claimed that the East Coast Cricket Board and the East Coast Demerara Cricket Association are two names belonging to the same board and that the names are being used “interchangeably.”
Dear Editor, Since no one with the required information will explain why Bravo and Pollard are pariahs of WI one-day cricket, I will speculate publicly about the reason or reasons, and pose the question, whether they deserve their banishment.
Dear Editor, “We will never bow, bend or break in the face of intimidation and aggression.
Dear Editor, It could be convincingly argued that our failure to achieve greater progress as a nation can be attributed to certain constraints or limiting factors.
Dear Editor, Guyana’s President David Granger will meet this evening with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro and United Nations Secre-tary General Ban Ki-Moon as efforts continue to find a lasting solution to the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.
Dear Editor, Suppose net migration, and hence remittances, was zero over the past several years.
Dear Editor, I read with considerable concern, coupled with mild amusement, some cacophonous utterances allegedly issuing from three high officials of the administration whose troubled demeanours spread across the printed media were unwittingly calculated to elicit utter distress from a bewildered citizenry.
Dear Editor, Last week I wrote on national uni-ty. The gravamen of my contention was expressed thus: “Though they may number in the hundreds, if not thousands, not one of those chanting the mantra of ‘national unity’, at least as far as I can recall, has taken the time and energy to articulate in a document for public scrutiny, what this concept connotes, how it can be achieved and how will it manifest itself practically, pragmatically and politically.”
Dear Editor, This is a strange society; it is strange to the point of being upside down on several fronts.
Dear Editor, I have just returned to Guyana for the fourth time in ten years and as usual I am regularly asked the proverbial question, “So what do you think about Guyana?”
Dear Editor, APNU+AFC Member of Parliament Audwyn Rutherford during his 2015 Budget speech in the National Assembly of Guyana made the following remarks: “Budget 2015 brings an end to the neglect of Linden”.
Dear Editor, There will be a lunar eclipse on Sunday evening, September 27, 2015.
Dear Editor, In celebrating Indigenous peoples heritage and also education month this September, I would like to wish all my fellow Indigenous people and all Guyanese a happy heritage and education month.
Dear Editor, Further to my SN letter of September 21(‘Remittances are responsible for about 17% of GDP’), I would like to conclude the discussion of remittances by looking at two issues: why do migrants send remittances back home, and how do recipients use the remittances they receive?
Dear Editor, It is clear from the actions and attitude of some Regional Education Officers that they are geared to frustrate the parents and teachers in Kwakwani.
Dear Editor, Some of the self-serving decisions made in terms of priorities and relationships are coming back to haunt this nation in the worst possible way.
Dear Editor, The Chief Education Officer, Mr Olato Sam in a recent address to stakeholders in education is reported to have asserted that “…the weaknesses we see in the children are a reflection of our teachers’ failings.”
Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the latest police catastrophe, which has claimed the life of yet another young officer, traumatized his colleagues and has further devastated the already tattered morale of the Guyana Police Force.
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